Career and quests

Quests come in four kinds: Career (a permanent chain that opens in order), Honor (a side list that depends on other players), Daily and Weekly. Open them with the Quests button in the Menu (G); you can track as many quests at once as you like. Level only opens quests: no map, ship or skill is locked behind a level.

Career

The 100-step main chain teaches the game in order: movement, targeting, lasers, rockets, crates, the station, your first generator, Surge, your first laser upgrade; then the gate, skills, chat, ammo, drones, mining, the Refinery, the second config, the Black Market, a new hull… Before every jump to a higher map comes a readiness block (9 blocks, 27 steps): it has you fit, upgrade and arm your ship with lasers, rockets, generators, chips and drones and reach a Power threshold. Buying is not enough, the part has to be fitted; when a step is done your ship grows stronger and a short Growth moment card shows how much. If you try to enter a map for the first time without being ready, the gate warns you; it does not lock. At the end of every section there is a big hunt, and its reward is enough Credits for the next ship. The chain is made only of creature hunts and steps that teach the game; no step depends on other players, so it moves forward even if nobody else is online. When the last step is claimed the Career is complete; there is no endless quest chain after it, and the Daily and Weekly quests carry on.

Honor list

Five quests that depend on other players were taken out of the Career and sit in the Honor tab, in an unordered list that is always visible; they never stop the chain. Each one opens at the level of the section it came from, and when it is done you collect its reward (Credits, XP, Silicite) with Claim reward. You track them like other quests (a quest you have not accepted makes no progress). Event quests (Under the banner, the daily Event day, the weekly Event week) count for the Crown War: if you stay on the Touchstone for half of the battle (at most 5 min) and hit a pilot, or stand in a beacon circle for 30 s, you have taken part in that battle (once per battle).

Daily quests

Every day at 00:00 Turkey time, 4 quests are renewed (a 5th from Lv70: a dangerous-map, PvP or Crown quest), and finishing them all gives the Daily complete bonus. Until there are more than 50 players, PvP and invader quests do not appear (there is nobody to fight); event quests do. They open after step 11 of the Career. Every quest has a rarity (grey 50%, green 26%, blue 16%, purple 8%): Antimatter and Data Cores are paid ×1, ×1.6, ×2.6 or ×4.5 (the table values are the average). Changing a quest costs Silicite and every row has its own counter: the first paid change of a row costs 100, each one after doubles (200, 400 …); the counter resets at the daily reset. A row allows at most 5 paid changes an hour. Vessarion Plus gives 2 free changes per row every hour (they do not raise the price or count toward the hourly limit). A finished quest and a guest pilot cannot be changed; a change draws a new quest and a new rarity.

The Silicite reward is a multiple of the Silicite you would get from plain hunting for the same time (the "Silicite multiple" in the table): more against creatures of a higher rung, less against a lower one. Up to Lv10 this reward is scaled by ×0.25, so in your first session quests alone will not buy you the 2nd ship. Every quest also pays Credits and XP according to your level.

Weekly quests

Every Monday at 00:00 (Turkey time), 4 big goals arrive, with a Weekly complete bonus. They open after step 20 of the Career. Changing works like the daily ones (from 100 Silicite per row, doubling; reset at the weekly reset).

Hunt time is the time that counts when a quest's goal does not know its own duration (PvP, events, crates); for "shoot down N creatures" quests the goal's real duration counts.